Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Although Gao Hongtu was born in 1583 with Jiang Yueguang, his official qualifications were much older than Jiang Yueguang's.

He became a Jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli (1610), and Jiang Yueguang was a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli.

In the early years of Chongzhen, he took the position of Yushi of the Zuodu. Later, he resigned because he couldn't get used to the eunuch and supervised the government, and returned to his hometown to serve the people for ten years.

It was only in the 15th year of Chongzhen that he led troops to resist the Qing army in his hometown Jiaozhou and defended Jiaozhou City. He was reactivated by Chongzhen as the minister of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and later he was promoted to the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department.

Looking at Gao Hongtu's deeds as an official for decades, he hated eunuchs from the very beginning, and he specialized in confronting eunuchs.

Although he is from Shandong, he is the backbone of the Donglin Party and the real leader of the Donglin Party in the Nanming Hongguang Dynasty.As for Shi Kefa, he was just the head of the Donglin Party.

This person can be regarded as a typical Confucian official. When he was an official, he just persuaded the king to improve his internal affairs and punish traitors. He had no specific achievements.

After the fall of the Hongguang Dynasty, he lived in Kuaiji as a sojourn. He received Duoduo's persuading letter, but he didn't even read it, so he fled to a ruined temple outside Kuaiji City, and died of a nine-day hunger strike.

Although Auntie Zhu had agreed to Jiang Yueguang and others to confer Gao Hongtu as the censor of Zuodu, she was actually prepared for Gao Hongtu's reluctance to take up the post.

Unexpectedly, Gao Hongtu came to take office.

This surprised Auntie Zhu a little.

Regarding the innovation of the work of each department, Auntie Zhu specially gave a guidebook.

Since Gao Hongtu came to serve as Zuodu Censor, he had a certain understanding of Aimee Zhu's affairs, and he expressed his approval of Aimee Zhu, the empress.

He also carefully read the instruction manual issued by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In the past, the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the Ming Dynasty mainly set up thirteen supervisory censors to supervise the military and political affairs of the two capitals and the thirteen chief ministers, and at the same time specially set up supervisory censors for various matters.

It can be said that the former Metropolitan Procuratorate can control everything, and almost everything is based on rumors.

There are no further departments in the center of the imperial court. There are only several administrative auxiliary agencies, such as the Experience Department, the Department of Affairs Office, the Zhaomo Institute, and the Prison Division, and each agency has only one or two officials.

However, the instruction manual given by Aunt Zhu designated three divisions and two bureaus for the center of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and adjusted the levels of the original four administrative auxiliary units.

Now the horizontal units of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are arranged as follows——

The Department of Political Supervision, the Department of Commodity Inspection, the Department of Legal Prosecution, plus the previous experience department.

Inspection Bureau, Special Affairs Bureau.

Office of the Secretary, according to the grinding office, prison office.

It can be summarized into two bureaus, three institutes, and four divisions.

Among them, the inspection bureau is set up for regular inspections of a certain place, and it is considered a semi-permanent unit.

The Bureau of Special Affairs needs to be established for the purpose of serving, not a permanent one.

In addition, the guidebook also recommends the establishment of ten political supervision departments under the Political Supervision Department for the ten ministries, the establishment of inspection offices in each province, the establishment of inspection bureaus in each government, and the dispatch of a political supervision envoy in each county, referred to as political supervision. Make.

As for the Commodity Inspection Department and the Forensic Inspection Department, the guidebook only wrote a few general sentences, and did not make specific suggestions, saying that it will be negotiated according to the situation in the future.

The Experience Department remains the same.

In the end, the right of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to report on rumors was abolished, and it was required that there must be evidence for everything to be reported.

Gao Hongtu could tell at a glance that the New Deal merged most of the rights and responsibilities of the previous six departments into the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and at the same time imposed new restrictions on the powers of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

For example, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has no control over military matters, or it must be based on facts, not rumors.

Although he had some understanding of Aimee Zhu's magic, Gao Hongtu still couldn't accept all the opinions in this instruction manual.

Hearing Aunt Zhu's question, Gao Hongtu thought for a while and said, "The guiding opinions on the reform of the Metropolitan Procuratorate given by His Majesty are generally beneficial to the state affairs, but there are also many things that are out of date."

Aimee Zhu did not have too much prejudice against one person because of the historical materials of later generations.

Especially in some things that she and Hao Guangming have no experience in.

Hao Guangming also agrees with this point.

In the later life, he certainly has a wide range of knowledge, but there are some things that you haven't personally experienced or actually done, so it's easy to talk about it on paper.

This is also one of the reasons why Aimee Zhu wanted to use these old Confucian officials first.

No matter how poor their theory is, or even wrong, these people always have some practical experience, and this is exactly what Hao Guangming and Zhu Yuxi lack.

Hearing Gao Hongtu say that Hao Guangming's guidance was not enough, she smiled slightly and said, "Mr. Yanwen, please explain."

Gao Hongtu said: "Previously, the imperial court had more than 100 imperial envoys in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, but if it follows the new policy, the number of imperial envoys required will increase dramatically to more than hundreds.

In this way, not only the salaries of these imperial envoys will increase the burden on the court, but also the Metropolitan Procuratorate may not be able to give full power to command, and there will inevitably be chaos due to many people and complicated affairs.

Secondly, if rumors are not allowed, but actual evidence is required, the deterrent effect of the imperial envoy on other officials may be greatly reduced.

Your Majesty should know that it is very difficult to obtain evidence for officials' corruption, law violations and dereliction of duty.

Most of the imperial envoys are young officials with little experience, how can they get evidence?
If no evidence can be obtained, is it possible that an official knows that an official has broken the law but can only let it go? "

Having said that, Gao Hongtu stopped.

Aimee Zhu pondered for a while, and said: "The two things Mr. Yanwen said are not unreasonable, but they are biased.

The imperial envoy's salary is not much, even if it is increased to a few hundred, how much money will it cost the court a year?

I have told the internal ministers before that the court's money is not enough to spend, first try to increase revenue, and the second is to reduce expenditure.

There are some things you can't stop doing just because you spend money.Moreover, with Zhen here, the financial situation of the imperial court will definitely get better and better.

Therefore, not to mention adding hundreds of imperial envoys, even adding thousands, the imperial court can afford the salary.

As for the fact that there are too many people and too many things, Mr. Yanwen is worried that the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not be able to lead, and that is the problem of the chief officer of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. "

After a pause, Zhu Yuxi said again: "Although rumors and reports are a great deterrent to unscrupulous officials, but the imperial envoys listen to the rumors and play them, which can easily disturb the audio-visual of me and the cabinet.

What's more, imperial envoys are all human beings, and they also have selfish motives.

Looking at the past 200 years of my Ming Dynasty, I don’t know how many imperial envoys have played for others, or played for their own self-interest, or played for the party.

In recent decades, imperial envoys have been completely reduced to a tool of party struggle and one of the sources of chaos and corruption in the government.

As for the saying that most of the imperial envoys are young officials, inexperienced, and difficult to obtain evidence-isn't this the same thing as what Mr. Yanwen said before?
Don't do things because they are difficult?Could it be that Mr. Yanwen has learned to 'retire in fear of difficulties' after reading sage books for so many years? "

With Gao Hongtu's official experience as the monarch of the five dynasties, he couldn't help but blushed and sweated on his forehead after hearing Zhu Yu's words.

Although the weather in June is already hot, there are many ice mirrors in the Hall of Martial Arts.

Jiang Yueguang next to him couldn't help exclaiming inwardly.

Although Auntie Zhu called Gao Hongtu one by one, her tone was not too harsh, but every sentence she said was compelling.

Retiring in fear of difficulties has always been despised by people, and facing up to difficulties is a virtue praised by the world.

Gao Hongtu raised two points, but Auntie Zhu attributed them both to "fear of difficulties", and it was almost impossible to refute them, so he couldn't step down from the stage.

Auntie Zhu didn't catch Gao Hongtu after him and beat him up, but looked at Jiang Yueguang and asked, "Mr. Juzhi, what do you think of the new policies of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

Jiang Yueguang originally had the same opinion as Gao Hongtu, so naturally he couldn't repeat Gao Hongtu's words now.

He thought for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, there are too many officials needed for the imperial envoy to be sent to the county, and it may be possible to set up the government first.

There are two or three imperial envoys in the Inspectorate Bureau of a prefecture, together with the officials, it is enough to supervise the illegal activities of the officials and people in the prefecture.

In addition, if it is not necessary for the imperial envoy to act with evidence, the imperial envoy should be given the right to verify, otherwise it may be difficult for the imperial envoy to do things in the local area. "

On the other side, Hao Guangming, who had been listening to the "confrontation" between Auntie Zhu and the first and second in command of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, couldn't help laughing and said, "The theory of window opening is really useful."

Auntie Zhu also smiled slightly.

The "window opening theory" of the great Confucian Lu of the later generations actually had similar principles in ancient times, but Sun Tzu said in the Art of War that "seek the top, you will get the middle; seek the middle, you will get the bottom; ask the bottom, you will lose" Just a different kind of application.

Both she and Hao Guangming knew that Daming had thousands of counties except for the guards, so it was definitely impossible to set up imperial envoys at the county level from the very beginning.

The reason why it was proposed was to use the window opening theory to make the opposing officials compromise, and agreed to set up the imperial envoy at the government level.

Previously, Daming set up the imperial envoy to the provincial level, and Zhu Yuxi set it up to the government level, which is already an obvious progress.

So, under Jiang Yueguang's somewhat apprehensive gaze, Auntie Zhu smiled and said, "Mr. Ju Zhi's words are not unreasonable, let alone, the new policies of the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be implemented at the government level first.

As for giving the royal envoy the right to verify, yes.However, it is necessary to report to the Supervision Office and the Supervision Bureau in advance to obtain relevant documents. "

Jiang Yueguang thought about it for a while, and then praised sincerely: "Your Majesty is wise!"